We performed a comparison between SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about LeanIX, Sparx Systems, erwin by Quest and others in Enterprise Architecture Management."Traceability is a fantastic feature."
"In terms of operational efficiency and cause savings or return on investment, I can say that with SAP PowerDesigner, our company saves a lot of time."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"SAP PowerDesigner is an excellent tool that does what I need it to do. What I like most about it is that it's stable, fast, and easy to understand."
"In PowerDesigner, I primarily use BPM and modeling standards. I find it beneficial for process analysis, although I use data modeling to a lesser extent."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it's built very well, easy to use, and simple to describe freely what is needed in logical and physical data models."
"It can automate many routine tasks and save human resources to focus on real problems."
"The algorithm is outdated and should be upgraded."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"In the future, I would like to see data manipulation capability where you can actually write SQL queries and manipulate data from directly within the tool."
"It would be helpful if there were glossary, catalog and governance tools. It would help make it a true end-to-end product."
"One disadvantage of SAP PowerDesigner is that you cannot reverse engineer the ALTER statements, so that's an enhancement or area for improvement I'm looking forward to seeing from the SAP team in the future. That should directly reflect on the physical data models my company builds."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"You have the possibility to complete a connection for abbreviations if you are creating columns or names of the tables. In the Citrix environment, this has been lagging to the point where the PowerDesigner was not usable."
SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is ranked 18th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 1 review while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 5th in Enterprise Architecture Management with 34 reviews. SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is rated 8.0, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer writes "Great training available with traceability a key feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is most compared with MEGA HOPEX, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and ARIS BPA.
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